Wow, this is so beautiful! I personally don't know Zelda, but I didn't know anything could inspire such awesomeness. Looking at all your work, I want to know how your brain functions. I mean like seriously breaking it down and observing every single cell, because your work is just too cool.

I think knowing how my brain functions wouldn't help anything. Then again, I really don't know how it works entirely either -- and despite my analytical nature, I would prefer to just enjoy doing some things rather than needing to understand how exactly I do them.

I've tried to understand how I do things, and there's a combination of continuously firing pattern-recognition, combined simultaneously with gut feelings of what I like or don't like (and the whole "gut feelings" thing isn't something I have yet been able to explain logically).

I will note that I intend to stream (trying to) make artwork tomorrow -- both headset stuff and screen sharing (should be found in my journal if you want information on it), so that would be as good a place as any to see and ask things as I'm working on stuff. XD

This is tied with Phaethic Escapade for my favorite thing that I've ever made. I really love how it looks...music is an amazing source of inspiration, and as much of what I make is affected by my own state of mind, I think the emotion in the image itself is much stronger than it is in most of my other work.

I don't know where you went, but it's very good to hear from you, that's for sure I hope you're doing well these days! If you want to chat or something, feel free to note me and I'll give you my skype or something.

I..uhm.. lost my Skype details AND my MSN details. The one I used for everything related to AE. I'll leave you a note in a few days once I figure it out? I'm a bit low on time right now.And yes, we REALLY need to talk. It's been long.

Generally, I assumes that comments are directed at the artist / person you are replying to / etc unless stated otherwise - while I understand that your comment was meant to relate to the work itself, I wasn't able to pick that from your comment at the time and thus was confused with what it was supposed to mean XD

It reminded of all the tormented souls forced to die because of me. Which laws condone that - I have no idea. Compounded trauma, the only way to relieve the pain is suicide. If not by your own hand then by someone who understands you. Question is, was the compounded trauma premeditated? And when I arrived they recognized me. They swiped and clawed at me and I listened. To separate their blame and accusations from my soul I became something like this work.These days they sit in a barber's shop with a haircutting cloak. Red faced, hawk nosed and withering, they take a scalding hot instrument and say, "This is because of her." A blood curdling scream cannot help but be released. And then the pain settles into satisfaction, "Because of her."Pain isn't enough. "We must induce: UGLINESS. Yes. Ugliness. Unworthy, all the snotty types will decree 'UNWORTHY.' And they'll come with us, to where do bad people go when they die?" There. More for us, less for her.I must allow free will. "Hail Mary, full of grace, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." How will these tormented souls judge the blind? Were they somehow implicated in the compounded trauma of other souls? Because if they are, and they can only be blind, deaf and ignorant, they are unworthy of the Kingdom and perhaps deserve pain and punishment. And they will never see me. Damien says to me, "Who you?" I say, "Mother Nature. And you are Father Sky."

Just as a slight question...you are aware that this isn't a digital painting, but rather a piece of fractal artwork? The "effect" is created by the fractal itself, and a combination of the colors used for the fire (dark reds to pure white), and then is influenced by brightness, gamma settings, and HDR color curves to give the "glowing" appearance. If you're looking for some sort of painting tutorial, then I unfortunately cannot help you as I can't do digital painting, despite it being something I would love to be able to do.

At the moment, I've not written any tutorials covering color/fire texturing with fractals. I've yet to even write a tutorial that covers the creation of "abstract" fractals. T.T

You know, i hear "fractal" being thrown around alot, but i've hardly actually grasped the concept.

The only time i ever saw someone break down something like it, was what it looked like was they took a picture,

then they sectioned off pieces of them to move and manipulate them, looking as though the object in the picture itself was "fractured"

is that the same thing?

we're on very different planes here ._. hahaha sorry xD i wish i knew alot more terminology on art types so that i grasped them better.

Especially when it comes to photoshop. I use photoshop as a digital painting tool, but i know i'm only just scratching the surface of what it's truely capable of when i see tutorials on here of what people do.

Even if i was able to make these fractals, if i could incorporate them into my artwork i would be so happy TuT

thanks so much for your reply, and congrats on reaching the popular page

The "fractals" I make are so far abstracted from typical fractals that many typical fractal properties, including internal repetition and geometric similarity, are often not easy to spot without explicitly looking for them. Many people have confused them with traditional painting and other things before; and my intent is to use them to 'paint' scenes rather than act as "traditional fractals" by manipulating how I set them up in wild ways. Not many people make fractals in this way, so it's understandable why people would presume this to be a painting or something

In most senses, something being a "fractal" means that the shapes repeat themselves infinitely -- the example you saw about something being fractured was simply showing that, as you look at smaller and smaller parts, the same internal pattern remains.

Hah, thanks In the grand scheme of things, this is the third most popular image I have; and still to this day, I'm really amazed at the response my artwork has been receiving recently.